The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-27

of progress. and even of the increase of taxpayng
masses, white and black in the country districts,
scattered over wide area have public schools at
ail encient The necessity is great. The danger to
AND 1t is this that many of the best of the
south oase their urgent appeal for temporary aid from
that Sas Tor pubic schools II = seen en-
oorers are to degree intelligent. This opinion
IS shown in little things One of the great planters of
the faZoo delta told that he used to have no end
OF trouble in settling with his hands. But that
numbers OF them read and cipher and explain the
accounts to the others he has the least troEoe
The Art Age, a magazine whose literary feat
ures are OF an equally high character with it's
art speciaties. contains in the current issue the
confession Of native New Highlander Of the i'm
possibility of entirely getting rid of the local
dialect Says the writer
Vivid memory exists to this day of mature struggles
to correct habits of pronunciation acquired in that
America 1t was long YEARLY long before the effort
ceased to say 'Door," instead of the pore almost
universal in Maine; not say "spon," or rod or
cot when spoon, and road, and coat We're meant to
say closet instead of '.cluzzit," and not dock and
mood instead of duke and nude. To this day, how
ever it is hopeless battling with teakitte. and
to our grave we shall say 'wiggle and tejus, when
we mean other things.
A New England boy went to Europe before he could
speak lie learned his mother tongue against over
wheimlng Odds and from the Yankee, his mother. "A
strong foreign accent chung to his American and by
arencn Engnsh ana Americans ne was always taken
tor French. At twelve years of age volume OF the
Blgow Papers fell into his hands. He read it with
shouts of appreciave laughter continually following
the English speaking members of the family about to
read aloud to them some passage of vivid Yankeeism
winch seemed to him quanter and more saNory OF his
native soil than the rest And the strange thing of
the whole matter that when this FrancoAmerican
youth rolled unctuously forth the dialect OF his
Yankee compatrots he did it exactly had he lived
on Yankee farm every day of his life, absolutely
without French accent absolutely with rustic New
England twang Hosea Bglow himself So much,
| perhaps, for Yankee heredity.
| Catherine Owen in Good Housekeeping.
| urges upon busy women the advantage to them
selves and the convenience to their friends of
| having an afternoon in the week set apart
! for receiving calls. She says:
MANY women of wealth and social position have
adopted the fashion perhaps at first because it
fashion but there is great deal than that to be
said IN its favor and it to the busy who has
every moment occupied with household duties and yet
keeps her hold social life who will find it saving
of time and means of snatching some passing pleas
and repose from what otherwise is occasional
vexation, whom the custom would help most The
advantage of receiving day is often fully understood
but women who make social pretensions shrink
from it for fear of being thought airy or aping
fashion, but it is just these who might look
| to their friends y There is another aspect un-
der which you may look at this question If Gas
some will say) you have not sufficiently large circle
to justify receiving day. If you have only three or
four occasional visitors, it will be kindness for you
to let them know that there is certain hour and day
| when you will be found at home. How often we
| come in and find would so gladly have
seen has called in absence perhaps some elderly
| or weak person. who has taken long walk and conse
| quently needed rest. L hope | have said enough to
make of my readers think this question
| seriously not affectation fashion, but as
| q means of avoiding one of the smaller Worries"
| In the Longfelow paper in March Wide
Awake two entertaining bits Of verse appear
one an autograph written in little maidens
autograph book by the poet himself;
| She who comes to me ard pleadeth
| In the gentle name of Edith
| VIII surely get that which she wanted;
Edith means the blessed; therefore,
| Whatsoever she doth care for
| Shall, if best for her, be granted.
The other is letter from a boy to Mr.. Long
| fellow:
| write thee for thy autograph;
And am nine years old:
/ hear thou art poet great,
| Because have been told.
| o have read thy poems good
| They're good as they De-
| And though I'm not critic,
| Their good plainly
/ Iwrite thee for thy autograph,
| And pray thee send it me,
| For soon as do get it
| Delighted VIII be.